Dutch Commercial About Tinnitus

The Dutch insurance company "Anderzorg" created an ad to generate awareness for tinnitus and the risk of hearing damage in advance of Amsterdam Dance Event.

Het gehoorschade apparaat

English subtitles version here.

 

Good work.

 

This was pretty good!

 

Does anyone's tinnitus actually sound like what is in the video?

Such a shrill noise :|

 

It's almost like I have an entirely different condition, yes I hear a noise in my right ear but it is of the static variety and nowhere near that high a pitch.

@Steve, can I ask what caused your tinnitus/what made it worse?

 

The advert looks great. @Berik - any idea if there if there's an English translation of it? YouTube's Auto-Translate didn't do a great job!

 

Not yet I think. I have reached out to ask if they can provide decent English subtitles in the YouTube video.

 

Have reached out, still pending reaction from their Marketing department.

 

Hi David, just got a response; the English subtitled version will be online this week.

 

Great, thanks @Berik!

 

Anderzorg - Living with hearing damage

Now with English subtitles.

 

Thank you @Berik!!

 

Thanks again @Berik - I've shared this and hope we can use in our prevention work.

 

Yep, mine sounds similar to this.

 

What a great idea.

 

Yup sounds like mine.

 

This was really good! Thanks for the English subs!

 

@Berik Thanx for sharing this.

 

This should be plastered all over social media especially during tinnitus week. No one can truly understand unless they’ve had it themselves but this offers a tiny glimpse of living with the condition and just maybe we could garner a little empathy from the unaware masses.

I know it’s been discussed before but I really believe that using devices like these could be a great part of a larger awarensss campaign.

Thanks for sharing @Berik

 

I would've killed to have someone show this to me.

 

I don't quite understand the device. Does it only provide the tinnitus noise? So it's like basically an earbud which plays the tinnitus noise for an hour in their ears? Or how does it model the girl's hyperacusis? It says it's a reverse hearing aid. Does it somehow dampen certain sounds and amplify others while playing her tinnitus noise?

It's a nice idea to show people how living with tinnitus is, but I'd be really concerned to expose people to loud tinnitus sounds from earbuds in fear of actually giving them tinnitus.